It’s honestly wild that American media has “are liberals trapped in a bluesky bubble???” debates every two weeks while a 22 year old groyper White House staffer known as BasedBoss1488 remixes scenes from 300 in a propaganda video for a toxically unpopular lame duck president’s war of choice

This actually isn’t surprising in the slightest from an American POV. The only people trying to actually learn from this war are like Mike kofman, Rob Lee, 4 rando freelancers, and 7 people on here

a lil pick in the securethebye-ey

And my broader point in *this* thread ("The Democrats are, point in fact, a center-left party by global standards") is being rejected because it invalidates like 40% of the remaining discourse, as well as the European continent's wholly unearned superiority complex.

also not the point but 99% of people are not going to go through the hassle of installing a local model that sucks worse than the remotely hosted ones without a bunch of fiddling around. this is the “just install linux” of genAI

I mean the Matts have been on this anti-licensing crusade for a while

Spurs Spur Spu Sp S Sc Sch Scha Schal Schalk Schalke

Athletic Director move

Today’s @mattbrown.bsky.social newsletter might be the clearest, most useful demonstration of the power dynamics in college basketball (and college sports in general) that I’ve ever seen. Schools in power conferences exclude everybody else, and then blame them for their own exclusion

I see the congressional GOP had a banner evening

We finally got a Virginia Supreme Court ruling! Confirmation redistricting referendum is happening Early voting starts this Friday Essentially a shadow docket ruling and not on final merits But highest court in Virginia will let voters go to the polls

Hm

Today is Ryan Day's "Maybe it will happen today" Day

I got into politics in the early 00s, and one thing that getting into politics makes you realize is that people who don't believe in anything will assuage their own discomfort by telling themselves that no one else believes in anything either. You might say it's a problem that exists in Abundance.

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Oh no

Wow could think that a certain class of political professionals/pundits are very allergic to any criticism about the flawed undisciplined candidate they chose, because they got so much riding on him financially, professionally, etc.

"how can you judge him by superficial issues like the racist tattoo he got for a decade and a half instead of the t-shirt he wore during our interview?" man, something about this guy brings out the funniest possible defences

Would love for WSJ or whoever is feeding them to explain what exact munitions they are speaking about here. There were 6 different articles before this thing kicked off saying the US only had enough PGMs for a 3-4 days of combat (a blatant lie).

Don't love the blatant antisemitism on display on this app either.

The market still not being good at pricing in supply chain shocks is so fucking funny

The wild thing is you never see the baseball guys use WAR for future projections like this. This is like saying Tarik Skubal needs a WAR of 7+ to get a $400 million contract.

I find the amount of replies and quotes thinking this is criticism incredibly funny

roy cooper when it’s time to win an election in north carolina

Guy who's paid to be really into sonic the hedgehog: The Democrats lost because they didn't talk enough about sonic the hedgehog

Fuck this one guy specifically

This is the most Florida, Miami can get, so naturally I support it

Okay so I did a limited replication of the underlying paper using the IPEDS data and I think my intuitive mostly held true, in that the DMV mostly feeds the DMV rather than losing elsewhere.

Steeler (derogatory)

Everyone thinking they are just built different in regard to him is such a strange phenomenon

Curve Radius: Wilderness Years

I do not want to dunk on the OP, but "hyper-literate" as a description of the Bsky user base made me laugh out loud.

That's right, Chrystia Freeland

This is not a dunk on him, but this has been more or less well known by anyone who has taken survey methods courses in social sciences for a long time. The fact that we base so much of our collective time on opinion polling is really dire.

uh oh

Well it's a good thing this all is happening when the (very mild) European winter is happening, or else multiple Euro governments would get wobbly again.

I like the Knives Out movies but Glass Onion is an extended Tahani episode of The Good Place

Everything is VEEP

If your HC looks this your O-line is about to die

Damning NYT story on the decision-making leading up to this war: "The president said he understood the risks of an attack, but he conveyed to Mr. Carlson that he had no choice but to join a strike that Israel would launch." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

How are they supposed to depart some of these. The Brits and the Germans are sending Air Force planes to get some of their citizens out